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This is a really nice idea! I played it a little bit and found one thing that can be confusing (at least for experienced Bash users): The use of <> as quotes. For instance:

   You can use the < head -n 1 > spell to take a peek at what a file holds
How about using a not-easily-typeable character pair like the guillemots?


> guillemots

May I suggest 「these」 instead?


Wow.

I'm adding this to my ascii "vocab"


They're CJK 「quotation marks」, so not actually ASCII


Why not the backtick? That's the standard in Markdown, and its actual use in bash is nearly eliminated with the far safer $() syntax.


I agree, I myself have doubts about using the chevrons as quotes. bashcrawl used * to show the commands you're supposed to type. You can imagine my confusion when I encountered that notion. Using «» is a good idea though, thank you.




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